ARTstor is collaborating with Esto Photographics to digitize and distribute images of modern architecture from the archive of Ezra Stoller (1915 – 2004), who is widely recognized as the leading American architectural photographer of the 20th century. A recent release of more than 5,800 images is now available in the Digital Library. This set includes buildings designed by Edward Larrabee Barnes, Pietro Belluschi, Marcel Breuer, Gordon Bunshaft, Arthur Charles Erickson, Ulrich Joseph Franzen, Walter Gropius, Philip Johnson, Morris Lapidus, I. M. Pei, Eero Saarinen, Hugh Asher Stubbins, Jr., Kenzo Tange, and Frank Lloyd Wright, among others.
Stoller founded Esto Photographics Inc. in 1966 as an architectural photo agency. Now directed by his daughter Erica Stoller, Esto arranges photography assignments for collaborating architectural photographers. The agency collaborates with VIEW Pictures in the UK and with archenova in Germany, stock agencies concentrating on images of architecture. Esto also manages a comprehensive stock photography archive relating to architecture, interior design, antiques, folk art, and Americana with images contributed by more than 100 photographers. Esto has partnered with ARTstor to share two important collections from the stock archive, those of Ezra Stoller and of Wayne Andrews, in the Digital Library for scholarly and academic uses.
For more detailed information about this collection, visit the Ezra Stoller Archive (Esto) collection page.
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ARTstor has collaborated with the School of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin to distribute the Christopher Long collection of more than 200 images of Central European architecture. These images have been digitized from slides housed in the School of Architecture’s Visual Resources Collection and created by Christopher Long. Architecture is represented from Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland, mainly from the 18th through 20th centuries, and includes buildings designed by Josef Chochol, Karl Ehn, Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, Joseph Gočár, Josef Hoffmann, Pavel Janák, Emil Králíček, Adolf Loos, Joseph Maria Olbrich, and Otto Wagner, among others.
Christopher Long, Associate Professor for Architectural History at the School of Architecture, specializes in the history of modern architecture, with an emphasis on Central Europe from 1800 to the present; his interests also include modern design in Central and Eastern Europe.
For more detailed information about this collection, please see the Christopher Long collection page.
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ARTstor has partnered with ART on FILE to document contemporary architecture in the Netherlands and Scandinavia. The photography for the most recent campaign concluded in June 2009. ARTstor sponsored this campaign to create new, direct-digital photographs of buildings, built-environment projects, and landscape architecture in a number of cities, including Amsterdam, Copenhagen, and surrounding areas, as well as Malmo, Sweden. Professional photographers Colleen Chartier and Rob Wilkinson have documented the works of MvRdV, Henning Larsen, Jean Nouvel, Santiago Calatrava, 3XN, de Architekten Cie., Foster & Partners, Steven Holl, Wilkinson Eyre, Toyo Ito, Neutelings Riediijk, Lundgaard & Tranberg, Renzo Piano Building Workshop, Jorn Utzon, Rafael Vinoly, Skidmore Owings & Merrill, Grimshaw Architects, Zaha Hadid, and numerous others.
These new photographs will join the approximately 9,600 images by ART on FILE already in the Digital Library. Chartier and Wilkinson have contributed selections from ART on FILE’s remarkable archive of slides and transparencies, which documents contemporary architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, and public art around the world. ARTstor has also sponsored previous campaigns for ART on FILE to create new digital photographs of contemporary architecture in the United States and Europe (Berlin, London, Barcelona, and Madrid).
For more detailed information about this collection, visit the Contemporary Architecture, Urban Design, and Public Art (ART on FILE Collection) page.
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The Spring 2009 edition of the ARTstor Newsletter is now available on our website and includes articles on the following:
- Celebrating One Million Images: An overview of collection growth showcasing the diversity and excellence of our content contributors
- New Collection Agreements & Releases: Highlights of some of the most recent collection releases and agreements to contribute new collections to the Digital Library
- Technology Timeline: Traces the 5-year development of ARTstor technologies
- Participant Viewpoint: Rochester Institute of Technology Libraries’ strategy for supporting ARTstor participation
The ARTstor Newsletter is available online as a printable PDF
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This July ARTstor celebrates five years of serving the educational and arts communities. Since the Digital Library’s launch in 2004 with 300,000 images ARTstor collections have grown to include more than one million images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences. Today ARTstor enables a wide range of users—curators, scholars, educators, librarians, and students—to teach and study with breathtaking cultural objects, seminal architectural works, as well as a broad range of historical, political, social, economic, and cultural documentation from prehistory to the present in a single online workspace. To this end we continue to develop new collaborative projects with content contributors, and explore and develop technologies that will aid in the discovery, presenting, and sharing of the Digital Library content across our community of users.
To read more about ARTstor’s first five years, please see our most recent newsletter, Volume 12.
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